[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dusky \dusk"y\, a.
   1. partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky
      valley.
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            through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --keble.
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   2. tending to blackness in color; partially black;
      dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --bacon.
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            when jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
                                                  --dryden.
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            the figure of that first ancestor invested by family
            tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
                                                  --hawthorne.
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   3. gloomy; sad; melancholy.
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            this dusky scene of horror, this melancholy
            prospect.                             --bentley.
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   4. intellectually clouded.
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            though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --sir p.
                                                  sidney.
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[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dusky
     adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "the dusky night rides down
            the sky/and ushers in the morn"-henry fielding; "the
            twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
            syn: twilighta, twilit
     2: naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned
        beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks";
        "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" syn:
        dark-skinned, swart, swarthy
     also: duskiest, duskier
see also:
twilighta twilit dark-skinned swart swarthy duskiest 
duskier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

61 moby thesaurus words for "dusky":
   acheronian, ambiguous, amphibological, black, blackish, bleak,
   brunet, caliginous, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, dark-colored,
   dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, desolate, dim,
   dimmish, dimpsy, dismal, double-edged, double-faced, drear, dusk,
   ebony, equivocal, evening, evensong, funereal, gloomy, grave,
   joyless, murk, murksome, murky, nigrescent, nubilous, obscure,
   opaque, sable, sad, semidark, shadowy, shady, sibylline, sober,
   somber, sombrous, subfusc, sunsetty, swart, swarth, swarthy,
   tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, unlit, vesper,
   vespertine

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